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Informativeness of the CODIS STR loci for admixture analysis.
Journal of forensic sciences - 1 Nov 2005
Barnholtz-Sloan Jill S, Pfaff Carrie L, Chakraborty Ranajit, Long Jeffrey C
Abstract excerpt
Population admixture (or ancestry) is used as an approach to gene discovery in complex diseases, particularly when the disease prevalence varies widely across geographic populations. Admixture analysis could be useful for forensics because an indication of a perpetrator's ancestry would narrow the pool of suspects for a particular crime. The purpose of this study was to use Fisher's information to identify...
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